I am sorry, but I don't think you really have looked at this in detail. Read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown History & Extensions, just to known about some of the differences out there. Any language without any formal spec is close to impossible to parse well, it is just hacking. Note that the original MD allows HTML inside ! WTF ? But if it is so easy, please write your own parser. Many have tried, many have failed. Or go read the code of one of them. Here is a cool attempt: http://www.greghendershott.com/2013/11/markdown-parser-redesign.html The fact that github implements their own variant and made it convenient says nothing. For the record, I am using MD myself. > On 14 Apr 2015, at 23:11, Dmitri Zagidulin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Furthermore, there is NO MarkDown standard, nor will there ever be. There are > slight but annoying differences between the main implementors. > > Not true. There is at least http://spec.commonmark.org/ > > It is super hard to write a parser for MD. > > What do you mean? Why? >
